For this particular blog, our main focus of discussion is how humans are becoming more like machines and how machines are becoming more like humans. Below you will see essays, articles and videos explaining our different sub topics.
"Kord Campbell sits at his desk as he views 3 monitors, a laptop, iPad and an iPhone. Scientists say heavy multitasking can change how people think and behave."
"SAN FRANCISCO – When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages: A big company wanted to buy his Internet start-up. The message had slipped by him amid an electronic flood: two computer screens alive with e-mail, instant messages, online chats, a Web browser and the computer code he was writing. While he managed to salvage the $1.3 million deal after apologizing to his suitor, Campbell continues to struggle with the effects of the deluge of data. Even after he unplugs, he craves the stimulation he gets from his electronic gadgets. He forgets things like dinner plans, and he has trouble focusing on his family" (The Observer). In an article published in The Observer it tells the story of a man who is overly attached to his technology and who is constantly multitasking between his various devices. Scientist believe that because his mind is constantly multitasking he his unable to filter what is important information. Even without the technology his brain is unable to keep constant concentration. His wife, Brenda, complains, “It seems like he can no longer be fully in the moment.” Humans have become too overly attached to devices and feel ultimately lost without them. Because humans are constantly plugged into machine are race is becoming more robotic.
Have apps really become a substitute for human labor? The answer, yes. Apps nowadays by the popular iPhone have been mostly created due to humans becoming too lazy to do their own work in which they can just download an app and have it do the work for them. For example, one of the most useful apps this man talks about it the "Mobile Mouse," which has the ability to act as a mouse on any nearby computer screen. Is it really that much harder to just go up to your computer and use the mouse? Has society really gotten so dependent on the iWorld that they can just expect gadgets like these to make life easier for them, how apps actually act as slaves at the owner's control? A thousand times, yes.
David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and
respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an
"emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future
where robots truly mimic humans. Even though they are mimicking human movements, It's still not genuinely coming from the robot itself. All of it is still programmed into their circuitry.
Again, we take a look at the ever popular Siri. A youtuber with the username UtterlyApple plays around with Siri and asks it a myriad of questions. When he came up with his observations, he noticed that Siri would respond to any question he threw at it with a voice that substituted as a human voice. By doing so, he got clear, vivid, and complete sentences from Siri, proving that Machines are becoming more like a Man (or in Siri's case, a woman.)
Explorations this time examines the marvels and mysteries of the humanmind and body. From brain implants to artificial intelligence, thisvideo explores the complexity and achievements of the human mind.Making intelligent computers appears to be within our grasp, but ifthey are to realize their full potential, then they will have tobecome more than inanimate boxes.
The era of neohumanity
In February of 2012 the first Global Future 2045 Congress was held inMoscow. There, over 50 world leading scientists from multiple
disciplines met to develop a strategy for the future development of
humankind. One of the main goals of the Congress was to construct aglobal network of scientists to further research on the development ofcybernetic technology, with the ultimate goal of transferring ahuman's individual consciousness to an artificial carrier.
Scientist around the world are becoming alarmed by the advancement intechnology, they're starting to think their
should be a limit on the researches. Alll the experiments, and makingartificial technology smarter might lead to the
technology outsmarting humans. Researchers have discussed possiblethreats to human jobs, like self driving cars,and robots. You can find out more about this here
